Historic Structures Database

Dispatch Building/ Gross Apartments

Location: 307 S. Franklin Street

AHRS#: JUN-181

CBJ#: A-02

Parcel#: 1C070H020020

Year Built: 1915

Architectural Style: Early 20th Century Commercial

Architect/Contractor: unknown

Historic Name: Dispatch Building/ Gross Apartments

Historic Period: Territorial Gov

Historic Integrity: altered/ contributing

Neighborhood: Juneau Downtown Historic District

Date of Local Designation: Not Designated

Date of National Register Designation: 06/17/1994

View 1 - Dispatch Building/ Gross Apartments,307 S. Franklin Street

Additional Information

General Description

The rectangular-shaped, three-story reinforced concrete building measures 40' x 40'. It has a concrete foundation, a partial basement, and a flat roof. Windows on the second and third floors are double hung. Storefront has two entrances and three fixed plate glass windows. There is a secondary cornice between the second and third floors with decorative corbels. A third floor was added in the late 1990s. Although significantly altered, the building retains the visual elements of the original front facade with a low front parapet, boxed cornices and decorative corbels. It has a sidewalk canopy.

Historic Use

commercial/ residential

Source

Inventory of Historic Sites and Structures, City and Borough of Juneau, March 1986; http/www.juneau.org/parkrec/museum/forms/digitalbob/index.php; National Register Nomination, June 17, 1994

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